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A looming change to how academic jobs are awarded has sparked fury among researchers

Scientists fear curtailed funding for basic social and behavioral research

35 people have applied to head the new agency, and the management board has elected a chair

Story on Congressional defunding of grants draws criticism of scientists

ELSO takes its demands for reform directly to the research ministries of EU member states

Work on hormone receptors, cataract surgery, and public policy honored

Ban on editing and peer-reviewing material from embargoed nations challenged

Government has offered 1 billion euros, but the scientists' union is unimpressed

Zerhouni proposes 1-year moratorium after finding 'vulnerabilities in system'

Imagine giving captopril, a blood pressure-lowering agent, to patients infected with anthrax, many of whom may have extremely low blood pressures because they're in shock or on the verge of it. Sounds crazy, right? But that's just what some clinicians suggested in the wake of the 2001 anthrax letters, based on animal studies showing that captopril could inhibit the lethal anthrax toxin.For a more recent example of how enthusiasm for important findings in basic science can often get the best of c

Last month, two writers from The Scientist and about 350 other reporters were among 1,800 participants at the inaugural EuroScience Open Forum in Stockholm. The meeting was billed as "the first pan-European science meeting ever," and included sessions on a familiar mix of diseases, planets, and dinosaur bones.Unfortunately for news hounds, the EuroScience meeting, like the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference on which it is modeling itself, was an exercise

It's the beginning of a new television season, which must mean it's time for the next in a line of television series glorifying the fast-paced, glamorous lives of scientists. NBC has brought us Medical Investigation, in which public-health specialists take to the streets (and the skies) to sleuth out the source of unexplained illnesses. In the series premiere aired earlier this month, the crack team of MDs and PhDs descend upon New York City to figure out why a dozen people have fallen ill and a